Marmaton Valley High’s basketball teams found out their pairings for the opening round of next week’s Kansas Class 2A substate tournament at Mound City.The 2011 Kansas Class 2A Substate Basketball Tournament is hosted by Jayhawk-Linn…

INDEPENDENCE — For the third straight game, it was a short span when an opponent outscored Iola High’s Mustangs at the beginning of a quarter. The Mustangs did not recover and finished a very frustrating…

INDEPENDENCE — Playing for second place in the Southeast Kansas League, Iola High’s Fillies put a five-game win streak on the line against another “hot” team — Independence High’s Lady Bulldogs, winners of six in…

One of the all-time great sports movies, in my view, is “Chariots of Fire.”  The 1981 Best Picture Oscar winner is a fact-based story of two British track athletes in the 1924 Olympics.Eric Liddell runs…

John Stanley “Stan” Howard of Owasso, Okla., died Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011, at the age of 68. He was born Feb. 14, 1943, in Columbus, to John and Letha May (Roberts) Howard. He was raised…

Former Toronto resident Floyd Wayne Gibson, 86, died Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011, in Wichita, Kansas.  Services will be at 11 a.m. Friday at Campbell Funeral Home in Yates Center. Interment will be in Toronto Cemetery. …

Anthony J. and Kathryn V. Works, Humboldt, announce the birth of a son, Owen Henry, born Jan. 28, 2011, in Chanute. He weighed 8 pounds., 8 ounces and was 21 inches long. He joins siblings,…

Republican assaults on public service unions moved this week from Wisconsin to Ohio and Indiana. And, yes, this is a partisan battle with the anti-union cadres getting big bucks from Wichita’s Koch brothers and their…

Steve Greenwall’s faith, rooted deep in his Mormon upbringing, is often incorporated into his landscape paintings.“I am a very religious person and believe God created the Earth. Nature is His handiwork and the inspiration for…

Audiences attending Allen County Community College’s Student-Directed One Acts are certain to ride an emotional roller coaster over the next three nights.There will be frequent points of laughter — wedding receptions that quickly veer off…